Articles

1. Metaheuristics and machine learning: an approach with reinforcement learning assisting neural architecture search

   • Sandra Mara Scós Venske
   • Carolina Paula de Almeida
   • Myriam Regattieri Delgado

   OriginalPaper 16 April 2024

   

2. Interpretability of rectangle packing solutions with Monte Carlo tree search

   • Yeray Galán López
   • Cristian González García
   • Alberto Gómez Gómez

   OriginalPaper Open access 18 March 2024

   

3. A hybrid iterated local search matheuristic for large-scale single source capacitated facility location problems

   • Guilherme Barbosa de Almeida
   • Elisangela Martins de Sá
   • Marcone Jamilson Freitas Souza

   OriginalPaper 26 December 2023

   

4. Algorithmic strategies for a fast exploration of the TSP \(4\)-OPT neighborhood

   • Giuseppe Lancia
   • Marcello Dalpasso

   OriginalPaper Open access 21 December 2023

   

5. A heuristic algorithm using tree decompositions for the maximum happy vertices problem

   • Louis Carpentier
   • Jorik Jooken
   • Jan Goedgebeur

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2023 Pages: 67 - 107

   

6. DSLS: a simple and efficient local search algorithm for the maximum bisection problem

   • Xinliang Tian
   • Dantong Ouyang
   • Liming Zhang

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2023 Pages: 43 - 65

   

7. A hybrid variable neighborhood search heuristic for the sustainable time-dependent truck-drone routing problem with rendezvous locations

   • Ebrahim Teimoury
   • Reza Rashid

   OriginalPaper 11 November 2023 Pages: 1 - 41

   

8. Effective adaptive large neighborhood search for a firefighters timetabling problem

   • Mohamed-Amine Ouberkouk
   • Jean-Paul Boufflet
   • Aziz Moukrim

   OriginalPaper 13 October 2023 Pages: 545 - 580

   

9. Solving travelling thief problems using coordination based methods

   • Majid Namazi
   • M. A. Hakim Newton
   • Abdul Sattar

   OriginalPaper Open access 09 October 2023 Pages: 487 - 544

   

10. On robust vs fast solving of qualitative constraints

    • Jan Wehner
    • Michael Sioutis
    • Diedrich Wolter

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2023 Pages: 461 - 485

    

11. A matheuristic approach for the family traveling salesman problem

    • Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh
    • Malek Sarhani
    • Stefan Voß

    OriginalPaper Open access 22 September 2023 Pages: 435 - 460

    

12. An integrated learning and progressive hedging matheuristic for stochastic network design problem

    • Fatemeh Sarayloo
    • Teodor Gabriel Crainic
    • Walter Rei

    OriginalPaper 09 August 2023 Pages: 409 - 434

    

13. An efficient scenario penalization matheuristic for a stochastic scheduling problem

    • Michel Vasquez
    • Mirsad Buljubasic
    • Saïd Hanafi

    OriginalPaper 29 May 2023 Pages: 383 - 408

    

14. The ALNS metaheuristic for the transmission maintenance scheduling

    • David Woller
    • Jakub Rada
    • Miroslav Kulich

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2023 Pages: 349 - 382

    

15. Learning fine-grained search space pruning and heuristics for combinatorial optimization

    • Juho Lauri
    • Sourav Dutta
    • Deepak Ajwani

    OriginalPaper 08 May 2023 Pages: 313 - 347

    

16. A hybrid heuristic algorithm for urban distribution with simultaneous pickup-delivery and time window

    • Fagui Liu
    • Lvshengbiao Wang
    • Boyuan Zhu

    OriginalPaper 08 May 2023 Pages: 269 - 311

    

17. A two-phase hybrid evolutionary algorithm for solving the bi-objective scheduling multiprocessor tasks on two dedicated processors

    • Fatma-Zohra Baatout
    • Mhand Hifi

    OriginalPaper 26 April 2023 Pages: 229 - 267

    

18. Minimizing total completion time in large-sized pharmaceutical quality control scheduling

    • Miguel S. E. Martins
    • Joaquim L. Viegas
    • João M. C. Sousa

    OriginalPaper Open access 14 February 2023 Pages: 177 - 206

    

19. Self-adaptive heuristic algorithms for the dynamic and stochastic orienteering problem in autonomous transportation system

    • Bijun Wang
    • Zheyong Bian
    • Mo Mansouri

    OriginalPaper 03 February 2023 Pages: 77 - 137

    

20. Heuristics and meta-heuristic to solve the ROADEF/EURO challenge 2020 maintenance planning problem

    • Hanyu Gu
    • Hue Chi Lam
    • Yakov Zinder

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2023 Pages: 139 - 175

    

21. Automated Algorithm Selection: from Feature-Based to Feature-Free Approaches

    • Mohamad Alissa
    • Kevin Sim
    • Emma Hart

    OriginalPaper Open access 09 January 2023 Pages: 1 - 38

    

22. A column generation-based heuristic to solve the integrated planning, scheduling, yard allocation and berth allocation problem in bulk ports

    • João Luiz Marques de Andrade
    • Gustavo Campos Menezes

    OriginalPaper 15 December 2022 Pages: 39 - 76

    

23. Combining hybrid genetic search with ruin-and-recreate for solving the capacitated vehicle routing problem

    • Martin Simensen
    • Geir Hasle
    • Magnus Stålhane

    OriginalPaper Open access 15 October 2022 Pages: 653 - 697

    

24. Modeling and evolutionary algorithm for solving a multi-depot mixed vehicle routing problem with uncertain travel times

    • Liang Sun

    OriginalPaper 05 October 2022 Pages: 619 - 651

    

25. Breakout local search for the cyclic cutwidth minimization problem

    • Mu He
    • Qinghua Wu
    • Yongliang Lu

    OriginalPaper 31 August 2022 Pages: 583 - 618

    

26. Incomplete MaxSAT approaches for combinatorial testing

    • Carlos Ansótegui
    • Felip Manyà
    • Eduard Torres

    OriginalPaper Open access 17 August 2022 Pages: 377 - 431

    

27. Heuristics for optimizing 3D mapping missions over swarm-powered ad-hoc clouds

    • Leandro R. Costa
    • Daniel Aloise
    • Andrea Lodi

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2022 Pages: 539 - 582

    

28. A systematic approach to parameter optimization and its application to flight schedule simulation software

    • Alexander E. I. Brownlee
    • Michael G. Epitropakis
    • Edmund K. Burke

    OriginalPaper Open access 05 July 2022 Pages: 509 - 538

    

29. Fixed set search applied to the multi-objective minimum weighted vertex cover problem

    • Raka Jovanovic
    • Antonio P. Sanfilippo
    • Stefan Voß

    OriginalPaper Open access 12 May 2022 Pages: 481 - 508

    

30. Data structures for speeding up Tabu Search when solving sparse quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems

    • Ricardo N. Liang
    • Eduardo A. J. Anacleto
    • Cláudio N. Meneses

    OriginalPaper 27 April 2022 Pages: 433 - 479

    

31. A memetic algorithm for the inventory routing problem

    • Mohamed Salim Amri Sakhri
    • Mounira Tlili
    • Ouajdi Korbaa

    OriginalPaper 22 April 2022 Pages: 351 - 375

    

32. Weighted iterated local branching for mathematical programming problems with binary variables

    • Filipe Rodrigues
    • Agostinho Agra
    • Cristina Requejo

    OriginalPaper Open access 16 April 2022 Pages: 329 - 350

    

33. A heuristic search based on diversity for solving combinatorial problems

    • Francisco Casas
    • Claudio E. Torres
    • Ignacio Araya

    OriginalPaper 04 April 2022 Pages: 287 - 328

    

34. Finding fixed-length circuits and cycles in undirected edge-weighted graphs: an application with street networks

    • R. Lewis
    • P. Corcoran

    OriginalPaper Open access 23 March 2022 Pages: 259 - 285

    

35. Special issue on “The Eighth International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology—SoICT 2017”

    • Ichiro Ide
    • Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

    Guest Editorial 04 March 2022 Pages: 147 - 148

36. Ride matching and vehicle routing for on-demand mobility services

    • Sepide Lotfi
    • Khaled Abdelghany

    OriginalPaper 19 February 2022 Pages: 235 - 258

    

37. A GRASP algorithm with Tabu Search improvement for solving the maximum intersection of k-subsets problem

    • Alejandra Casado
    • Sergio Pérez-Peló
    • Abraham Duarte

    OriginalPaper Open access 14 February 2022 Pages: 121 - 146

    

38. Lower and upper bounds for scheduling energy-consuming tasks with storage resources and piecewise linear costs

    • Sandra Ulrich Ngueveu
    • Christian Artigues
    • Safia Kedad-Sidhoum

    OriginalPaper 27 January 2022 Pages: 93 - 120

    

39. A new heuristic for finding verifiable k-vertex-critical subgraphs

    • Alex Gliesch
    • Marcus Ritt

    OriginalPaper 24 January 2022 Pages: 61 - 91

    

40. Using state-space shortest-path heuristics to solve the long-haul point-to-point vehicle routing and driver scheduling problem subject to hours-of-service regulatory constraints

    • Daiane Maria De Genaro Chiroli
    • Sérgio Fernando Mayerle
    • João Neiva de Figueiredo

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2022 Pages: 23 - 59

    

41. Intersections management for autonomous vehicles: a heuristic approach

    • Victor Silva
    • Clauirton Siebra
    • Anand Subramanian

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2022 Pages: 1 - 21

    

42. Constraint-guided evolutionary algorithm for solving the winner determination problem

    • Fernanda Nakano Kazama
    • Aluizio Fausto Ribeiro Araujo
    • Elaine Guerrero-Peña

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2021 Pages: 1111 - 1150

    

43. Randomized rounding algorithms for large scale unsplittable flow problems

    • François Lamothe
    • Emmanuel Rachelson
    • Jean-Baptiste Dupé

    OriginalPaper 09 September 2021 Pages: 1081 - 1110

    

44. A probabilistic analysis of neighborhoods for combinatorial optimization problems and its application

    • Taichi Kaji

    OriginalPaper 11 August 2021 Pages: 1057 - 1079

    

45. Multi-level evolution strategies for high-resolution black-box control

    • Ofer M. Shir
    • Xi. Xing
    • Herschel. Rabitz

    OriginalPaper 02 August 2021 Pages: 1021 - 1055

    

46. A two-phase approach for integrating preventive maintenance with production and delivery in an unreliable coal mine

    • Song Jiu

    OriginalPaper 28 July 2021 Pages: 991 - 1020

    

47. Conflict history based heuristic for constraint satisfaction problem solving

    • Djamal Habet
    • Cyril Terrioux

    OriginalPaper 30 June 2021 Pages: 951 - 990

    

48. Delayed improvement local search

    • Heber F. Amaral
    • Sebastián Urrutia
    • Lars M. Hvattum

    OriginalPaper Open access 29 June 2021 Pages: 923 - 950

    

49. An adaptive large neighbourhood search algorithm for diameter bounded network design problems

    • Michele Garraffa
    • Deepak Mehta
    • Luis Quesada

    OriginalPaper 23 June 2021 Pages: 887 - 922

    

50. Dynamic pricing with demand disaggregation for hotel revenue management

    • Andrei M. Bandalouski
    • Natalja G. Egorova
    • S. Armagan Tarim

    OriginalPaper Open access 07 June 2021 Pages: 869 - 885